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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 



SCHOOL LAWS 

Passed by the 

Third Legislature 

1911 



COMPILED BY 
R. H. WILSON, State Superintendent 



PRESS OF HERALD-DEMOCRAT 
McAlester, Okla. 



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CONTENTS 



Proposed Ainendment, providing for the levj'ing of a tax 
for the benefit of Common Schools. House Joint 
Resolution No. 2. Page 5 

To give to Commercial Clubs a right to lease and purchase 

State lands. House Bill No. 8 5. Page C 

To give any purchaser of school land the privilege of pay- 
ing all deferred payments. House Bill No. 86. Page. . 7 

Setting aside and creating a fund to be known as consoli- 
dated school district fund. House Bill No. 95. Page 8 

Providing for the attendance of school children in dis- 
tricts other than the districts in which they reside. 
House Bill No. 108. Page II 

Directing County Superintendents to employ the teachers 
for separate or minority schools. House Bill No. 145. 
Page 11 

Requiring all school funds to be deposited in banks paying 
3 per cent interest on daily balances. House Bill No. 
396. Page 12 

Providing for sale of school lands for sites for school 

houses. Senate Bill No. 62. Page 12 

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Giving the County Superintendents the riglit to employ 
an assistant; allowing them traveling expenses 
while inspecting schools. Senate Bill No. 85. 
Page 14 

Relating to the issuance of v\^arrants and certificates of 

indebtedness, etc. Senate Bill No. 100. Page 14 

Providing for a State Board of Education. Senate Bill 

No. 132. Page 18 



Empowering the State Superintendent to appoint a 
State Inspector of Schools. Senate Bill No. 139. 
Page 20 

Providing for transportation of pupils in consolidated 

school districts. House Bill No. 462. Page 2 1 



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SCHOOL LAWS 



ENROLLED. 



House Joint Resolution No. 2. 

By Milburn, Killam and Coyne of the House and Franklin 
•f the Senate. 

A Resolution Authorizing the Submission of a Proposed 
Amendment to the Constitution to the People for Their 
Approval or Rejection; Said Proposed Amendment Pro- 
viding for the Levying of a Tax for the Benefit of the 
Common Schools and the Distribution Thereof. 
Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives and the 
Senate of the State of Oklahoma: 

The following proposed amendment to the Constitution of 
the State of Oklahoma shall be referred to the people for 
their ratification or rejection at the general election to be 
held in the year 1912. Said proposed amendment shall be 
submitted under Article 5 and 24 of the Constitution and 
under the provisions of Article 1 of Chapter 44 of the Ses- 
sion Laws of Oklahoma, 1907-08, to be known, if adopted 
or approved by a majority of votes cast at such election, 
as Section 31, Article 10, of the Constitution. 

Section 31. The Legislature shall have power to levy taxes 
in the aid of the common schools of the state and to provide 
for the apportionment and distribution thereof. Whenever 
the amount realized from a five mill ad valorem levy and all 
other sources shall be insufficient to maintain the common 
schools in any district five months in any year the remaiing 
sum necessary to so maintain such school shall be apportioned 
and paid out of such state levy. 

Said proposed amendment shall be submitted in the fol- 
lowing form: 

Shall the Proposed amendment be adopted? 

Yes 

No 

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Said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State 
of Oklahoma, shall, upon receiving a majority of all electors 
voting at said election, voting in favor of said amendment. 
be adopted and shall constitute a new section to be knows 
as Secton 81, of Artcle 10. 

Passed the House of Representatives January 23, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Passed the Senate the 11th day of March, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, 
Approved March Sixteenth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of 0*klahoma. 
W. H. NEW, 
Chairman Committee on Enrollment. 



ENROLLED. 



House Bill No. H5. 



By Logan. 



AN ACT 
To Give to Commercial Clubs, Chambers of Commerce, or 
Other Similar Organizations, a Right to Lease and Pur- 
chase State Lands From the Commissioners of the Land 
Office and Declaring an Emergency. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. That any Commercial Club, Chamber of Com- 
merce, or other similar organization, incorporated under the 
laws of the State of Oklahoma, of any city, town or village 
of the State of Oklahoma, shall be permitted to lease or pur- 
chase land from the Commissioners of the Land Office of the 
State of Oklahoma, under the same rules and regulations as 
other lesses or purchasers of state land; Provided, that said 
land so leased or purchased must be located within one mile 
of the corporate limits of said city, town or village. Provided, 
that not more than three hundred and twenty acres of said 
land shall be leased or sold to such organization in any city, 
town or village. 

Section 2. For the preservation of the public peace, health 
and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason 
whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from 
and after its passage and approval. 

Passed the House of Representatives this 24th day of Feb- 
ruary, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Passed the Senate this the 4th day of March, 1911. 

J. J. McALESTER, 

President of the Senate. 
Approved March Sixth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 
W. T. CLARK, 
Acting Chairman of Committee on Enrollment. 

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ENROLLED. 
House Bill No. 86. 

^^ ^°-^^"- AN ACT 



To Give Any Purchaser ot School Land Situated ^A itlim One 
MUe of the Corporate Limits of Any City Town or Vi lage 
in 'the State of Oklahoma, the Privilege of Paying All De- 
ferred Payments on Said Land at Any Time After the Pur- 
chase Thereof and Repealing All Acts in Conflict Here- 



Be'VEnacted by the People of the State of ^^^Jf «^^^^ ^^^ 
G^-tinr. 1 T^^.e t^urchaser of any school land, Fcia oy tne 
cor. mislier/oftCLand office of the State of Oldahoma 
situated within one mile of the corporate limits of any city, 
town or village in the State of Oklahoma. Bhall have the 
nrivile-e at the time of the purchase, or at any time there- 
Xer fo pay any or all deterred Pay--t%.'-t£ Prmcpal 
and accrued interest to the Commissioner of the Land Ottiee 
X7tZot Oklahoma, and upon such Pay™-t ^-"^l ^^^ 
the patent for said land shall he issued t° f/ I'""''','^ the 
his assigns hy the Commissioner ot the Land Office ot trie 
state of Oklahoma, as provided by law. 

SectVon 2 All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. 

'■^ PastedV/ Hoise of Representatives, this the 24th day of 
February, 1911. ^ ^ DURANT, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
rassed the Senate this the 4th ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' 

President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 
Approved March Sixth, 1911. ^^^^ ^^^^^ 

Governor of the State of Oklahoma , 
W. T. CLARK, 
Acting Chairman of Committee on Enrollment. 

ENROLLED. 



House Bill No. 95. 

Bv Coffey of the Senate and Woodson of the House. 
^ AN ACT 

Setting Aside and Creating a Fund to he Known as Consoh- 
rlntPd School District Fund, for a Specified Use, All the 
Lands and Funds Derived from the Sale Thereof, Embraced 
^n Section 33 and Lands Selected in Lieu Thereof Located 
n Greer County, as the County Existed Prior to Statehood 
ToSther With the Proceeds of All Incomes Derived, or 
?hlr May Accrue Therefrom Ma-king Provisions for the 

Be'ifE^L't^^'byTh'e People of the State of O.ia.oma. 

Section 1 All the lands and funds that ^^ve nereioio e 
been or may hereafter be derived ^ ™- ''^ttld Stlttf surv':;: 
braced in Section 33 according to J^e Umted States suiy. 
located in Greer county as the county «^'^tf /Jj^^/j^a" ^^11", 
ber ■ 16th, 1907, together with all lands seiecceu 



th'ereof, -and the proceeds of all rentals, interests and sales 
accrued, or that may accrue therefrom, shall be set aside 
and credited to a fund which is liereby created, to be known 
as the "Union Graded or Consolidated School District Fund." 
the same to be used only to assist in constructing or paying 
for scliot)l buildings or consolidated school districts that have 
■been or may hereafter be conlructed under existing laws per- 
taining to consolidated school districts. 

Section 2. The Commissioners of the Land Office are au- 
thorized and directed to sell and convey the lands described 
and set aside in Section 1 of this Act; same to be sold under 
the provisions, limitations, exceptions, rules and regulations 
of lands sold under amended Senate Bill No. 1, approved 
March 2nd, 1909, the same being Article 2 of Chapter 28 oT 
the Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1'909, 'or as may be here- 
after provided by law. 

Section 3. Sucli funds as have now accrued by virtue oT 
rentals, and such as may hereafter accrue by virtue of rentals, 
and the proceeds of sale and interest thereon, prior to Jan- 
uary 1st, 1913, are hereby appropriated and placed at the 
disposal of the State Board of Education, subject to the 
conditions and limitations contained in this Act. 

Section 4. The State Board of Education in apportioning 
said fund shall make such rules and regulations as shall ulti- 
mately result in a fair and eauitable distribution of said fund 
to the different counties of the state, in proportion as nearly 
as may be possible to the scholastic population outside of 
cities of the first class. 

Section 5. In any union graded Or consolidated school dis- 
trict that has been formed for a term of not less than six 
scholastic months, and has employed at least three teachers, 
and has an actual attendance during the said term of not 
fewer than one hundred thirty scholastic pupils residing 
within the boundary of said district, (the district having fur- 
nished free transportation to such as are contemplated by 
the law provided for consolidated school districts), and that 
has already constructed and furnished a suitable building of 
not fewer than three rcoms, upon making proof of com- 
plignce with the foregoing provisions approved by the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall have drawn by 
the State Auditor upon the State Treasury against said 
building fund in favor of the treasurer of said consolidated 
school district, a warrant for a sum not to exceed one-half 
the cost of said building. Provided, that in no case shall 
any district receive a sum exceeding twenty-five hundred 
($2,500.00) dollars, from the appropriation herein made; 
provided, that the State Board of Education may decrease 
this amount if in its judgment the amount is greater than 
a fair proportion belonging to one district. 

Section 6. Whenever a school district of not less than 
twenty-five (25) square miles in area shall have been estab- 
lished and conducted for a period of not less than six months 
under the terms of existing laws with reference to the 
consolidation of schools, and a building containing not fewer 
than three rooms, suitably constructed, equipped and fur- 
nished shall have been built, and a graded school employing: 
not less than three teachers shall have been conducted for a 

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term of not less than six months, upon making proof of 
compliance with the foregoing provisions approved by the 
State Superintendent of PuDiic Instruction shall have drawn 
a warrant in favor of the district treasurer as provided in 
Section 5 of this act. 

Passed the House of Representatives this the 28tli day of 
February, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Passed the Senate this the 11th day of March, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 
Approved March Twentieth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 



ENROLLED. 



House Bill Ni>.108. 

By Barrett and Akin. AN ACT 
Providing for the Attendance of School Children in Districts 

Other than the Districts in Which They Reside: 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. The county superintendent of any county in this 
state, may when in his judgment the best interests of the 
schools will net be adversely affected, and when requested by 
the parents or guardian, permit children living in any school 
district in this state at a distance of two miles or more from 
the school house at the home district, to attend school in 
another district, by giving notice in writing, to the school 
boards of the two school ditsricts affected, at least two 
months before beginning of school in either district. When 
the county superintendent authorizes such transfer of children 
from one district to another, he shall tranfer the state, county, 
and school district funds for such children from the district 
in which they reside to the district in which they attend 
school. Provided that any child, prepared to enter a grade 
higher than is offered by the home district, shall be en- 
titled, on written request of the parent, to transfer in the 
same manner as described in this act, to a district, town or 
city school offering such higher grade of work. 

Section 2. After having given notice of the proposed 
change of districts, the parents and children shall be bound 
for the school year unless released by act of the majority ot 
the school board of each district affected. The children shall 
be governed by the regulations, rules and the compulsory 
school law of the district in which they have chosen to at- 
tend school. 

Section 3. Renters and others who come into a school 
district after the school term has begun may make a choice 
of schools under the above regulations by giving notice as 
soon as a residence has been established, and their children 
shall be enumerated for that year by the school board for 
the district in which they shall attend school. 

Passed the House of Representatives, this the 6th day of 
February, 1911. 



W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Tassefl the Senate, this the 11th day of March, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 
Approved March Sixteenth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 

W. H. NEW, 
Chairman Committee on Enrollment. 



ENROLLED. 



House Bill No. 145. 

[{y Steen and Jayne of the House and Graham of the Senate. 

AN ACT 
Directing County Superintendents of Public Instruction to Em- 
ploy the Teachers for the Separate or Minority Schools in 
Their Respective Counties, Empowering Them to Prescribe 
Rules and Regulations for the Government of Such Schools, 
Repealing All Laws in Conflict Herewith, and Declaring an 
Emergency. 
T5e it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. It shall hereafter be the duty of all County 
Superintendents of Public Instruction to contract with and 
employ all the teachers for the separate, or minority 
schools now maintained or hereafter to be established in their 
respective counties; said teachers before being so employed 
shall possess all the qualifications which are now required 
by law, and shall be paid in the same manner as is now pro- 
vided by law. 

Section 2. The County Superintendent of Public Instruction 
shall have the power to prescribe rules and regulations for 
the government of said separate or minority schools. 

Section 3. An emergency is hereby declared to exist by 
reason whereof it is necessary for the immediate preservation 
of the public health and safety that this act take effect and 
be in force from and after its passage and approval. 

Passed the House of Representatives the 15th day of Feb- 
ruary, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Passed the Senate the 11th day of March, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 
Approved March Sixteenth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 

W. H. NEW, 
Chairman Committee on Enrollment. 



ENROLLED. 



House Bill No. 396. 

By Wright, Fuller and Jackson. 

AN ACT 

Fiequiring Treasurers of Cities, Towns, Villages, Treasurers of 

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Boards of ETdu cation of Cities, Township Treasurer and 
School District Treasurer, to Deposit All Money Belonging 
to Such City, Town, Village, Board of Education of Cities. 
Township and School District Funds, in Ban-ks Paying 3". 
Per Cent Interest on Daily Balances, Fixing Penalty for 
Violation Thereof, and Declaring an Emergency. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. No Treasurer of any city, town, or village, Treas- 
urer of the Board of Education of any City, Township Treas- 
urer, nor Schcol District Treasurer in this state, shall de- 
posit any of the money belonging to such city, town, villagev 
the Board of Education of such city. Township Treasurer or 
School District Treasurer, in any bank which will not pay for 
such money not less than three per cent interest on the aver- 
age daily balances of all such money in said bank; provided 
such interest shall become a part of the funds on deposit. 

Section 2. Any such Treasurer who violates Section 1 of 
this act shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and shalS 
be subject to removal from office. 

Section 3. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for 
the immediate preservation of the public peace and safety, 
by reason whereof this act shall be in force and effect from 
and after its passage and approval. 

Passed the House of Representatives this the 24th day of 
February, 1011, 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Passed the Senate this the 9th day of March, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 
Approved March Eleventh, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 
W. H. NEW, 
Chairman Committee on Enrollment. 



SENATE BILL XO. 62. 



By Coffey of the Senate and Logan and McClintic of the House 

A BILL 
Entitled An Act Providing for the Sale of Such School Lands 
as May Be Needed for Sites for School Houses, and Declar- 
ing an Emergency. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. Upon application of any regularly organized 
School District Board to the Commissioners of the Land Office, 
wherein it is made to appear that it is necessary to locate a 
site for a public school house on any of the Public School Land 
or State Lands, the Commissioners of the Land Office are here- 
by authorized and directed to have, or cause to have, such 
public building site surveyed, said site to not embrace more 
than four acres of land, and said Commissioner shall cause 
said site, so located and surveyed, to be appraised as pro- 
vided by law. and w^hen said School District Board shall have 
filed with said Commissioners of the Land Office a relinquish- 
ment of the preference right and interest held therein by the 
lessee of said site so located and surveyed, or when said 

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School District Board shall have condemned the preference 
right and interest of said lessee in said site, express authority 
being herein granted to such School District Board to so 
condemn such lessee's interest in any such land for the pur- 
poses herein mentioned under the condemnation procedure 
now applicable to railroads, and shall have filed with said 
Commissioners of the Land Office the final judgment of the 
court, thereupon said Commissioners of the Land Office shall, 
upon the payment to the state of the appraised value of 
said site and tract, so located and surveyed, make, execute 
and deliver to said School District Board a patent to said 
tract, as provided by law. 

Section 2. The money arising from the sale of public 
school land, as provided in Section 1 of this Act, shall be 
appropriated and used in the same manner and for the same 
purposes as money arising from the sale of other public school 
lands of the state, or as money arising from the leasing of 
public school lands. 

Section 3. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for 
the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, 
whe^refore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and 
after its passage and approval. 

Passed the Senate February 23rd, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 11th, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Approved March Twentieth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 
Examined and found correctly enrolled. 

R. P. WYNNE. 
SENATE BILL NO. 85. 



By Graham of the Senate and Woodson of the House. 

A BILL 

Entitled An Act Giving the County Superinteadents ot' the 

State of Oklahoma a Right to Employ One Assistant; Allow- 

nig Them Their Necessary and Actual Expenses Incurred 

While Inspecting the Schools of the County Once Each 

Year, and Declaring an Emergency. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of O-klahoma: 

Section 1. That each County Superintendent of this state 
shall have the right to employ an assistant or clerk who shall 
receive the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month; said 
salary to be paid monthly by the Board of County Commisr 
sioners. 

Section 2. That each County Superintendent of this state 
shall be allowed all actual and necessary traveling expenses 
while away from home inspecting the schools of the county; 
Provided, no expense shall accrue for the inspection of a 
school more than once annually. 

Section 3. An emergency is hereby declared, by reason 
whereof it is necesary for the immediate preservation of the 
public peace, health and safety that this Act ta-ke effect and 
be in force from and after its pasasge and approval. 

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Passed by the Senate March 8th, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate 
Passed by the House of Representatives March 11th, 1911. 

W, A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives- 
Approved March Twenty-fourth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 
Examined and found correctly enrolled. 

R. P. WYNNE. 



SENATE BILL NO. 100. 



By Jones. 
AN ACT 

Relating to the Issuance of Warrants and Certificates of In- 
debtedness; Providing Manner and Limit of Issuance of 
Any Municipality; Method of Registration and Payment; 
Providing Penalties for Issuing Warrants, Evidences ol 
Certificates of Indebtedness in Any Form in Excess of the 
Estimate Made and Approved for the Fiscal Year or Au- 
thorized by a Bond Issue, and Repealing All Acts in Con- 
flict Herewith. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. All public funds of any county or of any sub- 
division thereof shall be disbursed only in the payment of 
legal warrants, bonds and interest coupons. 

Section 2. It is hereby made the duty of every officer au- 
thorized to allow, issue, draw or attest any warrant or cer- 
tificate of indebtedness against the public funds of any county, 
city, town, township, board of edu3ation. school district or 
any other subdivision of the county; to issue, drawn and re- 
cord all warrants, bonds, and interest coupons, in the numeri- 
cal order issued on each fund, beginning with number one 
and issuing t^ie same consecutively during the fiscal year. At 
the beginning of each fiscal year a new series shall be com- 
menced, and said series shall be designated by writing the 
fiscal year en the warrant or certificate of indebtedness for 
which the levy to pay the same has been made. 

Sestion 3. The term "estimate made and approved" as 
used herein, is defined to mean the itemized statement of 
the estimated needs of municipality for its current expenses 
for the ensuing fiscal year, as approved and fixed by the 
excise board or by vote of the muniaipality, adding thereto 
the amount necessary to create a sinking fund to meet matur- 
ing bonds, judgments and interest coupons, but the amount 
or limit to which warrants and certificates of indebtedness 
may be issued, shall not include the ten per cent to be 
added to the estimate for delinquent taxes. 

Section 4. Each and every warrant or certificate of in- 
debtedness must be drawn against a spe3ific fund, and there 
shall be shown on such warrant, or certifi3ate of indebtedness, 
l)y the cfficer or person issuing, drawing or attesting the same, 
the amount of the estimate made and approved by such pur- 
pose for t'ne fiscal year or the specific amount authorized by a 
bond issue for said purpose; the amount of warrants or cer- 

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tificates of indebtedness issued or drawn against said fund 
and the net balance to the credit of said fund. As soon as 
said warrant, certificate of indebtedness, or bond is issued, the 
same shall be at once signed and attested and forthwith de- 
livered by the officer attesting the same, to the treasure r of 
the county or subdivision thereof, issuing the same for reg- 
istration. 

Section 5. It is liereby made the duty of the treas^ rer 
of the county, or the treasurer of any subdivision thereof, to 
whom a warrant, certificate of indebtedness or bond is di- 
rected for payment, to register the same in a book to be -kept 
for that purpose 'by entering therein the number, the date, the 
name of the payee, the fund upon which it is drawn and the 
amount, and by writing in the warrant cr evidence of indebt- 
ness, the date of registration, his name and official title. All 
warrants, certificates of indebtedness or bonds shall be reg- 
istered in the same numerical order in which they have been 
issued, and when so registered shall be returned to the officer 
attesting the same. No warrant, certificate of indebtedness 
or bond shall be a valid charge until registered by the treas- 
urer of the municipality issuing the same. Warrants and all 
evidences cf indebtedness shall bear interest at the legal rate 
from and after its registration by the treasurer, unless there 
is cash on hand to pay the same when presented for regis- 
tration and then tlie treasurer shall make the same "payable" 
after registering the same, and no interest shall be computed 
or allowed thereon when paid. When the treasurer has 
money on hand to pay warrants duly registered, he shall pub- 
lish notice thereof in one issue of a newspaper, or by posting- 
five rotices in public peaces, and interest shall cease on said 
warrants after thirty days from the date of said publication or 
posting of said notices. 

Se3tion 6. Warrants and certificates of indebtedness may 
be issued to the amount of the estimate made and approved 
by the excise board for the current fiscal year or to the 
anount authorized for such purpose by a bond issue. 

Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any officer to issue, 
approve, sign, attest or register any warrant or certificate of 
indebtedness in any form in excess of the estimate of expenses 
made and approved for the current fiscal year or authorized 
for such a purpose by a bond issue, and any such warrant or 
certificate of indebtedness issued, approved, attested or regis- 
tered in excess of the estimate made and approved or author- 
ized by a bond issue, shall not be a charge against the mu- 
nicipality upon which it is issued, but may be collected by civil 
action from any officer issuing, drawing, approving, signing, 
attesting, resistering or paying the same, or from either or all 
of them or from their bondsmen. 

Section 8. Any treasurer who shall register or pay a w^ar- 
rant, or certificate of indebtedness, issued in excess of the 
estimate made and approved by the excise board for the 
current fiscal year, or in excess of a bond issue for such pur- 
pose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Section 9. It shall be unlawful for the Board of County 
Commissioners, the city council or the commissioners of any 
city, the trustees of any town, board of education, township 
board, school district board of any member or members of the 

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aforesaid commissioners, or of any of the above named boards, 
to make any contract for, incur, acknowledge, approve, allow 
or authorize any indebtedness against their respective munic- 
ipality or authorize it to be done by others, in excess of the 
estimate made and approved by the excise board for such 
purpose for such current fiscal year, or in excess of the 
specific amount authorized for such purpose by a bond issue. 
Any such indebtedness, contracts, incurred, acknowledged, ap- 
proved, allowed or authorized in excess of the estimate made 
and approved for such purpose for such current fiscal year 
or in excess of the specific amount authorized for such pur- 
pose by a bond issue, shall not be a charge against the mu- 
nicipality whose officer or officers contracted, incurred, ac- 
knowledged, approved, allowed or authorized or attested the 
evidence of said indebtedness, but may be collected by civil 
action from any official contracting, incurring, ac-knowledg- 
ing, approving or authorizing or attesting such indebtedness, 
or from his bondsmen. 

Section 10. Any officer contracting, incurring, acknow- 
ledging, authorizing, allowing or approving any indebtedness, 
or any officer issuing, drawing, or attesting any warrant or 
certificate of idebtedness in excess of the estimate made and 
approved by the excise board for such purpose for such cur- 
rent fiscal year or in excess of the specific amount authorized 
for such purpose by a bond issue, or who violates any other 
provision of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than 
one hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars, and 
shall forfeit and be removed from his office. 

Section 11. All acts or parts o*f acts in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. 

Passed by the Senate February 20, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 

Passed by the House of Representatives March 11, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Aproved March Fifteenth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 

Correctly enrolled. 

R. P. WYNNE. 



SENATE BILL NO. 132. 



As Amended by Conference Conunittee. 

By Wynne, Coffey and Williams of te Senate, and Barrett, 
Akin, Logan, Durant, Davison, Clark (of Grant) and Williams 
(of Comanche) of the House. 

A BILL 
Entitled An Act to Provide for a State Board of Education, 

Prescribing Its Powers and Duties and Declaring an 

Emergency. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. The State Board of Education shall consist of 
seven members including the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, who shall be the President, and six members ap- 

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pointed by the Governor and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, for a period of six years, except as hereinafter pro- 
vided. The appointive members shall possess the same 
qualifications and be subject to the same restri3tions and lim- 
itations as are now required of the Text Book Commission, 
and at least two cf them shall be practi3al school men who 
shall have had at least four years experience in actual school 
work, two years of which si; all have been in the State of 
Oklahoma. Upon the passage and approval of this Act two 
members shall be appointed for a term ending June 30th, 
1913, two members fcr a term ending June 30, 1915, and 
two members for a term ending June 3 0, 1917, subsequent ap- 
pointments, except to fill vacancies, sball be for the full term 
of six years. 

The appointive members of said board shall receive as 
compensation for their services, the sum of six ($6.00") dollars 
per day, their neces£:ary traveling expenses, and a3tual hotel 
expenses not to exceed three ($3.00) dollars per day, while 
in the performance of their duties and they shall not be 
removed during their term of cffice except for cause. 

There shall be appointed by the President to be approved by 
said board, a secretary, who shall receive a salary of two 
thousand dollars per annum, and a stencgrapher v,ho shall 
receive salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, payable 
monthly and said positions are hereby created. 

Section 2. The State Board of Education, organized in 
pursuance of this Act, shall be the legal successor of the State 
Board of Education as it now exists, the State Text Boc-k Com- 
mission, the Board of Regents of the State University, the 
IBoard of Regents of the University Preparatory Schools at 
Tonkawa and Claremore, the Board of Education now in con- 
trol of the State Normal Schools, the Board of Regents of the 
Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls at Chick- 
asha, the Board of Regents of the School of Mines and Metal- 
lurgy at Wilburton, the Board of Control of the School for the 
Deaf at Sulphur, the Board of Control for the School for the 
Blind, the Board of Control of the Boys' Training School at 
I'auls Valley, the Board of Control of the Orphans' Home at 
Pryor Creek, the Board of Control of the Institution for the 
Feeble Minded at Enid, the Board of Regents of the Colored 
Agricultural and Normal University at Langston, the Board 
of Regents of the Institute for the Deaf, Blind and Orphans 
Home for the Colored at Taft, and shall have all the powers, 
rights and privileges heretofore legally exercised by said 
Boards; Provided, nothing in this Act shall invalidate any 
contracts entered into by the Text Book Commission. Said 
Board shall have the following additional powers and duties: 

a. The general supervision of the public schools of the 
state. 

b. To formulate and adopt courses of study for the com- 
mon schools and county normal institutes, and arrange courses 
of study and adopt text books for use in the higher educa- 
tional institutions of the state. 

c. To formulate rules and regulations governing the 
issuance of all certificates to teach in the public schools of 
this state. 

d. To prepare questions for the examination of applicant? 

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for county and city certificates to teach in the public schools 
of the state. 

e. To examine applicants for state certificates, to teach in 
the public schools of the state, and for conductors' and in- 
structors' certificates to teach in the county normal institutes. 

f. To prepare examination questions for graduates from 
the eighth grade of the public schools, 

g. To classify the public high schools of the state and 
properly accredit them to the various higher educational insti- 
tutions of the state. 

h. To formulate and adopt courses of study for state pu- 
pils' reading circles, and for state teachers' reading circles, 
and to select boo-ks to be used in said reading circles, and to 
prepare questions for the issuance of reading circle certifi- 
cates. 

i. The State Board of Education shall make a biennial 
report to the Governor and Legislature, setting forth the 
work of the board and the condition of the schools of the 
state. The board shall also prepare and submit to the 
Governor thirty days before the convening of each regular 
session of the Legislature a budget estimating the necessary 
appropriations for each of the institutions under their man- 
agement and control. 

j. Upon application having been made in writing by the 
organization representing the commercial and business col- 
leges and institutions in this state, it shall be the duty of 
said board to formulate rules and regulations which shall 
govern the organization, operation, management and control 
of said commercial and business colleges; the authority herein 
granted is in addition to that above stated to extend to the 
formulation and adoption of courses of studies, the length of 
time necessary to complete same, and rules and regulations 
governing the issuance of diplomas by said commercial col- 
leges. J 

Section 3. For the preservation of the public health and 
safety an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason 
whereof it is necessary that this Act take effect and be in 
force from and after its passage and approval. 

Passed by the Senate March 8rd, 1911. 

.T. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 

Passed by the House of Representatives March 6, 1911. 

W. A. DURANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representativ-es. 

Approved March Sixth, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE, 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 

Examined and found correctly enrolled. 

GEO. A. COFFEY, 

Chairman. 



ENROLLED. 

Senate Bill No. 189. 

By Wynne of the Senate and Akin of the House 

A BILL 

Entitled an Act Empowering the State Superintendent to Ap- 

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point a State Inspector of Schools; and Fixing His Duties 

and Salary. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. The State Superintendent may appoint a fjtate 
School Inspector, who shall visit and inspect the city, town 
and rural schools of the State, and aid in giving information 
and assistance in the organization and maintenance thereof. 
This Inspector shall assist the State Sunerintaadent in pre- 
paring such special reports to the Governor, Legislature and 
Slate Board of Education bearing upon the condition and 
n^'eds of the city, town and rural schools of the State as may 
be advisable. It shall also be tli-i duty of this Inspector to 
confer with each city and county superintendent concerning 
the condition and needs of the schools in his city or county, 
to consult with school officers, patrons and teachers in regard 
to school management, discipline, branches of study, school 
law and school sanitation, and by public lectures, conferences 
and meetings endeavor to arouse an intelligent interest in in- 
dustrial and agricultural education, as well as In the routine 
work of the schools. He shall investigate and report to th« 
Superintendent plans for a better and more economical organ- 
ization of the state school system, and more perfect articula- 
tion thereof. He shall, as far as practicable, encourage and 
assist in the organization and establishment of consolidated 
rural schools and rural high schools. 

Section 2. The Inspector, provided for by this Act, shall 
work under the direction of the State Superintendent, and 
shall report to him as often as may be necessary concerning 
the condition of the schools inspected by him in the discharge 
of his duties. When the schools are not In session, said In- 
spector shall be assigned to other duties by the State Super- 
intendent. 

Section 3. The State School Inspector shall receve an an- 
nual salary cf eighteen hundred dollars ($1,8 00.00). and 
shall be reimbursed for all actual and necessary traveling ex- 
penses when duly certified to by the State Superintendent. 

Section 4. Section 5 88 4 of the Statutes of 189 3 (the same 
being Section 7962 of Snyder's Compiled Laws) Is hereby re- 
pealed. 

Passed bv the Senate March 8, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. 

Passed bv the House of Representatives March 11, 1911. 

W. A. DFRANT, 
Speaker of the House ol Repiesentatives. 

Approved March 2 2nd, 1911. 

LEE CRUCE. 
Governor of the State of Oklahoma. 

Correctly enrolled. 

R. P. WYNNE. 



ENROLLED. 



House Bill No. 462. 

Bv Williams (of Ccman?he.) 

AN ACT 

To Provide for the Transportation of Pupils in Consolidated 



School Districts, and Repealing all Acts in Conflict Here- 
with. 
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma: 

Section 1. Section 4 of Article 1, Chapter 33, Laws of 
Oklahoma, is hereby amended to read as follows: 

Section 4. The powers and duties of the District Board 
herein provided and of its several officers shall be the same 
as those provided by law for school district boards and their 
several officers, and in addition, it shall be the duty of said 
District Board to provide transportation to and from school 
for all pupils living one and one-half miles or more therefrom, 
in suitable vehicles of ample size, v»ath comfortable seats ar- 
ranged to conform to the sizes of the pupils to be carried with 
an adjustable cover for the comfort and protection of the 
pupils, drawn by stout, gentle teams and driven by persons 
of good moral character. Avho shall have control of said pupils 
duriu.T,- t' eir transportation; provided, however, that vv'hen 
a majority of the voters voting at a special meeting called 
by proper notices as provided in law shall vote to do away 
with the transportation by the district, then transportation 
shall not be mandatory. 

Section 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith 
be, and the same are hereby repealed. 

Passed the House of Representatives March 1, 1911. 

W. A. DUR ANT, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Passed the Senate March 11, 1911. 

J. ELMER THOMAS, 

President of the Senate. 
Approved March "22, 1911. 

LEE CRITCE, 
(Governor of the State of Oklahoiwa. 

W. H. NEW, 
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